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Maile Meyer and Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick

United States

KĪPUKA [for “Natasha”], 2022

Singapore Biennale 2022 Commission

KĪPUKA [for “Natasha”] is a site-specific installation that brings together various cultural materials related to the Hawaiian archipelago. The word kīpuka is a Hawaiian term that carries many meanings, but most often refers to an island of vegetation that is surrounded by hardened lava. In cultural anthropology, the word has also come to refer to social-cultural spaces that facilitate the regeneration of Pacific Islander culture and traditions. Maile Meyer and Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick aim to create a cultural kīpuka in Singapore, which shares contributions from an intergenerational group of family, friends and frequent collaborators, including ʻĪmaikalani Kalāhele, Wayne Kaumualii Westlake, Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana, ʻElepaio Press, Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina, Tutuví, ʻAi Pōhaku Press, Native Books, Nā Mea Hawaiʻi, Lawrence Seward, Bradley Capello, Keanahala and kekahi wahi, among others. Their offerings are presented within an altered shipping container, a spatial setting that resembles a makeshift Visitor Centre.

BIO

Maile Meyer and Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick are a mother-son duo. Meyer was born in Kailua, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu and educated abroad in the continental United States. Since returning home to Hawaiʻi in 1987 she has worked in community organising, arts advocacy and small business. Meyer is the founder of Native Books, Nā Mea Hawaiʻi, and Aupuni Space, co-founder of ʻAi Pōhaku Press, and Executive Director of Puʻuhonua Society, one of Hawaiʻi’s most long standing non-profit arts organizations. Broderick was raised in Mōkapu, a peninsula occupied by the United States military, on the windward side of Oʻahu. His work as an artist, curator and educator is guided by the ongoing efforts of Native Hawaiian women who have devoted their lives, individually and collectively, to perpetuating the stories and practices of Hawaiʻi. Broderick currently serves as director of Koa Gallery and an instructor in the Arts & Humanities Department at Kapiʻolani Community College. Most recently, he co-curated the Hawaiʻi Triennial: Pacific Century - E Hoʻomau no Moananuiākea (2022). Meyer and Broderick live and work in Honolulu, Oʻahu.

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  • KĪPUKA [for “Natasha”]. 2022. Site-specific installation. Dimensions variable.

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Date: 17 March 2023, Friday
Time: 2.30pm – 7pm
Venue: Sentosa Cove Village
Free, by registation.

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Taking place at Sentosa Cove Village alongside the site-responsive installation KĪPUKA [for “Natasha”], this three-part public program, here and there, is conceived by a group of friends and frequent collaborators.

The program begins with a weaving workshop, Māka Puke, Bookmark, led by Maile Meyer and Sancia Miala Shiba Nash of KEANAHALA, an Oʻahu-based community-oriented weaving initiative of Puʻuhonua Society, a Honolulu not-for-profit arts and cultures organization. Participants will work closely with one another to weave their own lauhala (pandanus leaf) bookmarks.

Following this hands-on activity, writer Wong Binghao will moderate a panel discussion, Of Islands and Intersections, between artist Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, curator Fang-Tze Hsu, and educator George Radics. The discussion will be rooted in the personal and professional experiences of the speakers and engage some of the overlapping and diverging archipelagic realities of Okinawa, the Philippines, Guåhan, Hawaiʻi, and Singapore.

To close out the evening, poet Richard Hamasaki will offer a reading, Afterlives, The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, that interweaves a selection of his poems with those of Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947–1984) a fellow poet and beloved friend. Come as you are, leave when you like—here and there is casual, eclectic, free, and open to all.

- Māka Puke, Bookmark, 2.30pm–5pm

- Of Islands, An Intersectional Discussion, 5pm–6.30pm

- Afterlives, The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, 6.30pm – 7pm

Sentosa Cove Village Fri, 17 Mar 2023 - 02:00 pm